91˿Ƶ

Force-Displacement Transducer

force displacement traducer

Height: 5 cm 
Width: 19 cm 
Depth: 9 cm 
Material: Metal, wood 
Date: c1980s 


Dr. Richard Fraser, Director of the Maude Abbott Medical Museum, provides a brief description of the function and/or use of the equipment.

This transducer converts a force or a displacement into a voltage that can be recorded for later analysis.  It was used at 91˿Ƶ in an undergraduate physiology lab course exercise on intestinal smooth muscle run by Dr. Peter Weldon in the 1980s.  

Illustration of transducer

Montgomery et al., 2016:  Autonomic modification of intestinal smooth muscle contractility. Adv. Physio. Educ. 40:104-109, 2016. 

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